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Genesis 10:18

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And the Arvadite,—dwelt in Arvad, Aradus, now Ruad (Josephus)—and the Zemarite,—Simyra, a city of Phoenicia (Bochart, Michaelis, Gesenius, Kalisch) whose ruins are still called Sumrah—and the Hamathite.

The inhabitants of Hamath, called Hammath Rabbah (Amos 6:2); Epiphaneia by the Greeks; now Hamah. And afterwards—i.e. subsequent to the formation of these distinct tribes by the confusion of tongues—were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

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